Board Game Arena

You will have to pay the heat eventually (or spin out). The game lets you select cards you can't afford currently because future you might be able to generate enough heat to pay for it. ETA: RazorOz is correct. You won't spin out directly, but you will have to deal with the heat cost eventually, and...

I would normally suggest raising a suggestion in the Bugs and Suggestions forum for the game. In my experience, those forums are more active and more likely to be seen by the devs for the game (if there are any active). There's also a mechanism for other players to vote for suggestions (and bugs) wh...

You could set up a dummy account and play against yourself as an alternative to "Hotseat" mode. If you sign onto one of the accounts through a different browser (for example, one in Chrome, one in Edge) you can avoid the problems of logging in and out of accounts. This might not help direc...

If you use Manual game selection ("PLAY NOW", then set the filters to "SIMPLE/TURN-BASED/MANUAL"), you can see the time parameters before you enter a game. You could also create your own invitation and set the playing hours/rate to whatever you would like. To be clear to other ne...

Another possible solution to at least part of this problem would be to remove the option - if any player runs out of time, the game is immediately ended. (This doesn't fix the problem of a player leaving, but at least it would prevent a third party from leveraging the situation (that is, using a kic...

In Heat: Pedal to the Metal, players who withdraw have their cars removed from the track, so they have no further effect on the game. Vektorace, another car-racing game on BGA, also allows players to withdraw (and have no further effect on the game). Through the Ages (both versions) allows for playe...

You don't have to avoid async games - just use the "manual" dropdown in the lobby (vs. "Automatic" or "Friends") and then avoid games that have more than 1 or 2 moves a day. It might be harder to find invitations for some games, but you can always create a new invitatio...

There is a way to do this by searching Community Tags on BoardGameGeek, but it isn't great. Under the search bar, there is a dropdown menu (default "boardgames") that you can switch to "Tags". There is a "BGA" tag which seems to be relatively up to date. Publishers and ...

The Arena game queues are intentionally kept separate from non-Arena queues (for a variety of reasons), so you can't really look at both at once. (Though the multiple tab option mostly works if you really want to find a game.)

Just manually closing the chat window works for me when I get caught in a game chat for a game I didn't join. (To be clear, hitting "X" to close the chat window, not just the "-" for minimizing it.)